Monthly Archives: November 2012

In the tradition of No Time For Goodbye, The Vanishing and Tell No One comes a brilliant, unnerving, psychological thriller. ‘It’s just to say that no-one has come to pick Nathan up from school, and we were wondering if there … Continue reading →

Just realised I have four book gigs in six days coming up at the end of the month. That’s like a tour. Kind of. Anyway, here are the dates, hopefully see some of you out and about: 24th November, Fife … Continue reading →

At parents’ evening the other night, we got a look at Aidan’s jotters from class. One of the things he had to do was ‘A Day As…’, imagining the life of someone else. He did me. This is what he … Continue reading →

I love it when one of the earlier books gets a review out of the blue. Here’s a very engaged treatment by Martin Macauley of The Ossians over at [pank]. Macauley namechecks David Lynch, Elmore Leonard and Robert Louis Stevenson. … Continue reading →

Here’s a wee thing I did a while ago for English PEN that I completely forgot about. Me and some other writers were asked about our favourite books in translation. Very interesting answers across the board.